A Parceria Público-Privada na Indústria da Defesa: desafios e oportunidades para os países em desenvolvimento

Abstract

The Industrial Defense Base (IDB) of developing countries faces several structural difficulties, technical and budgetary constraints to development in science, technology and innovation in the defense industry. This research highlights the relation between the Defense, the Economy and the Scientific-Technological sector, through the Public- Private Partnership (PPP) model. A PPP comprises an initiative that involves working together between the public and private sectors, covering various types of collaboration between these sectors, to meet the needs for services and infrastructure. Several aspects motivate the conclusion of a PPP: scarcity of governmental resources to finance projects and the possibility of achieving the desired productive efficiency, based on the expertise and best practices that the public sector lacks. In this context, the following research problem was raised for the analysis: what are the main challenges and opportunities of the PPP model in the defense industries of Brazil and Pakistan? Defense requires the preparation, organization and maintenance of sophisticated systems for effective employment. In relation to the material, defense systems in the state of the art, involving a certain technological complexity, must integrate the inventories of the Forces. Thus, countries must resort to acquisitions abroad, to the promotion of a self-defense industrial base or to technological / industrial cooperation, which include PPPs. At the end of the research, a viable PPP model is proposed, with the possibility of being explored in Brazil and Pakistan.